PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Arnost Paskalev (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Seth Zane (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Paskalev comes to the cage accompanied by The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger. Zane has chosen Alexisonfire - Mailbox Arson as his entrance music. Seth Zane struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 146.4lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Both fighters really staring each other down here, as Seth Zane enters the cage!

Paskalev
vs
Zane

173 cm
21
153 lbs
8 - 2 - 0

173 cm
27
155 lbs
7 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Granite chin

Fury Nutrition Inc.

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Arnost Paskalev!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Seth Zane!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, David Schapiro and Dean Styles.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Paskalev closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Paskalev is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Zane!
Paskalev breaks from Zane's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Paskalev with the ground and pound from mount.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Paskalev lands with some strikes.
Paskalev tries to control but Zane wriggling away.
Paskalev pushing the pace here, looking to move to his opponents back and work for a finish.
Paskalev pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Paskalev raining down hammerfists from mount.
Zane prevents Paskalev from taking his back.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Paskalev in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Paskalev moves to back control.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zane wants to control his opponent's hands but Paskalev gets his hands free.
Paskalev scores with strikes from the back.

Zane showing good submission defense here.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Watch the back of the head! Comes the shout from the referee towards Paskalev.
You know, I was talking to some of our celebrities at ringside tonight and they were split right down the middle on who was going to win this fight.

Paskalev working for the rear naked choke here. He's got one arm under but Zane is defending well. A couple of punches soften him up though and Paskalev has tightened the hold! This one could be all over! It is! Zane taps out!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Arnost Paskalev!
Our winner, Arnost Paskalev, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.